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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Kazerun in Iran


Earthquake location 29.6129S, 51.4982WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Kazerun in Iran on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.78 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:45:24 / 3:45 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/03/17 / 2017-03-17 00:15:24 / March 17, 2017 @ 12:15 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 51.4982° East, latitude 29.6129° North, depth = 28.78 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008u9j. Id of event: us20008u9j.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Iran (c. 76 923 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nūrābād, Borāzjān, Kāzerūn. Epicenter of the earthquake was 15 km (9 miles) from Kāzerūn (c. 94 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Borāzjān (c. 86 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Nūrābād (c. 64 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 15 km W of Kazerun, Iran.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 51.4982° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 29.6129° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km W of Kazerun, Iran Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-03-17 00:15:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-25 21:32:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 210 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 259 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.256 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20008u9j Id of event.
Event Code 20008u9j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008u9j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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